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The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. [1] Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as the Tank Corps and the Royal Tank Corps, it is part of the Royal Armoured Corps.
The regiment originally saw action as G Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917. Part of the 1st Army Tank Brigade , 7th RTR saw service in France in May 1940, alongside the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during the Battle of Dunkirk and was soon evacuated at Dunkirk , and abandoning most of their vehicles.
Ward was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Tank Corps (later Royal Tank Regiment) on 26 August 1937. [2] [3] He served in the Second World War with the 5th Royal Tank Regiment from 1939 in the Western Desert and North Africa, taking part in the Second Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Tunis in 1942. [3]
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Two Royal Tank Corps armoured car companies in Egypt, the 3rd and 5th, were brought together and reformed as 6th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps. [1] However, this unit was understrength - it only consisted of two companies - and was not brought up to full strength with a third company until early 1939, by which time it had been renamed the 6th ...
Brown was educated at Bromsgrove School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) on 30 January 1930. [2] [3] He served with the 5th Battalion until 1931, and then he served with the 2nd Armoured Car Company in India until 1935.
In 1951 the Band of the 43rd (6th (City) Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Royal Tank Regiment, or simply the Band of the 43rd Royal Tank Regiment was formed in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1956 as part of the reductions of the Royal Armoured Corps , the 43rdRTR was redesignated as the 6th (City) Btn, RNF.
The Royal Tank Regiment Memorial is a sculpture by Vivien Mallock in Whitehall Court, London. It commemorates the Royal Tank Regiment . The sculptural group depicts the five-man crew of a World War II–era Comet tank at 1½ times life size. [ 1 ]